myDeaconmyhand
First man to get a team of horses up Bear Mountain
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/06/the-difference-between-liberalism-and-leftism
There are generalizations you have to look past, but I think this article from 2017 clarifies the philosophical distinction between moderate Democrats and "Bernie Bros"
"It is not simply a disagreement over tactics among people who share ideals. The two sets of ideals are different, and come from two entirely different worldviews. The core divergence in these worldviews is in their beliefs about the nature of contemporary political and economic institutions. The difference here is not “how quickly these institutions should change,” but whether changes to them should be fundamental structural changes or not."
"...Liberals believe that the economic and political system is a machine that has broken down and needs fixing. Leftists believe that the machine is not “broken.” Rather, it is working perfectly well; the problem is that it is a death machine designed to chew up human lives. You don’t fix the death machine, you smash it to bits..."
There are generalizations you have to look past, but I think this article from 2017 clarifies the philosophical distinction between moderate Democrats and "Bernie Bros"
"It is not simply a disagreement over tactics among people who share ideals. The two sets of ideals are different, and come from two entirely different worldviews. The core divergence in these worldviews is in their beliefs about the nature of contemporary political and economic institutions. The difference here is not “how quickly these institutions should change,” but whether changes to them should be fundamental structural changes or not."
"...Liberals believe that the economic and political system is a machine that has broken down and needs fixing. Leftists believe that the machine is not “broken.” Rather, it is working perfectly well; the problem is that it is a death machine designed to chew up human lives. You don’t fix the death machine, you smash it to bits..."